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    EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION For Justice & Democracy
    Avenue de la Renaissance 10
    B-1000 Bruxelles
    Tel/ Fax: +32 2 732 70 27/26
    Website :Eafjd [1]

    THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2009

    CONTACT: VARTéNIE ECHO
    TEL. / FAX. : +32 (0) 2 732 70 27


    A CONFERENCE AGAINST DENIALS IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
    The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD),
    in association with the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif (Jewish Laic
    Community Centre) and IBUKA Mémoire & Justice (Ibuka Memory and
    Justice Association), will hold a conference entitled Denial and
    Democracy in Europe on October 6, 2009 in the European Parliament,
    Brussels.

    The conference will be held under the aegis of Mr Elmar Brok
    (Christian Democrat, Germany), in light of the adoption of the
    Framework Decision against Racism and Xenophobia by the European
    Council in December 2008. Article 1 of the Framework Decision
    prohibits genocide denial in the EU. It is now a requirement that EU
    Member States incorporate the provisions of this Framework Decision
    into their national legislations by 2010.

    The conference will be an occasion for political leaders,
    historians, experts, human rights workers, philosophers and others to
    exchange their views and their concerns regarding the state of
    genocide denial in Europe. Specifically, the speakers will explore
    critical questions for Europe arising from increased genocide denial
    within the EU as well as the potential benefits or drawbacks of the
    Framework Decision.

    The increase in genocide denial is evidenced by comments such as
    those of the president of Iran regarding the Holocaust. More recently,
    the Republic of Turkey has incorporated provisions into a recent
    agreement with the Republic of Armenia that call for the
    establishment of a committee of experts to revisit and review the
    actuality of the Armenian Genocide.

    Among others, the experts to take the floor on October 6 include Mr
    Ralph Giordano, a Jewish journalist and essayist who survived to the
    Nazi regime, Professor Yves Ternon, one of the main French historian
    specialized on the 20th century genocides, Professor Mihran Dabag,
    founder and director of Institute for Diaspora and Genocide Studies in
    Bochum (Germany) or Mr Marcel Kabanda, the chairperson of Ibuka France


    The detailed program of the conference is available hereafter. This
    event will take from 2pm place room ASP 5G-2 IN THE EUROPEAN
    PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS.

    THE EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION RECALLS THAT REGISTRATION IS
    MANDATORY AND IS TO BE COMPLETED ON ITS WEBSITE [4].
    PROGRAM
    DENIAL & DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE

    EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, BRUSSELS, ROOM ASP 5G2

    TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2009, 3:00PM` 6:30PM

    UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF ELMAR BROK, MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

    2:30 ` 3:00 Registration of attendees


    M. ELMAR BROK ` Welcome address


    MRS HILDA TCHOBOIAN ` Introduction note of EAFJD


    MR MARCEL KABANDA - Introduction note of IBUKA


    MRS MICHèLE SZWARCBURT - Introduction note of CCLJ

    KEYNOTE SPEECH

    Mr Ralph Giordano
    _Writer, Publicist, __Germany_

    SPEAKERS

    PROF. YVES TERNON
    _Professor of History, __Paris_ IV- Sorbonne, France;
    Expert in Genocides and Denials


    PROF. MIHRAN DABAG,
    _Founder and Director of Center for Studies of Diasporas &
    Genocides, __Bochum__, __Germany_


    MR GILLES KARMASYN
    _Expert in Information Systems; Founder of __www.phdn.org [5]
    (Pratique de l'histoire et dévoiements négationnistes), France_


    MR MARCEL KABANDA
    _President de IBUKA-France_


    MR LAURENT LEYLEKIAN
    Director of the _European Armenian Federation_


    MR MANUEL ABRAMOWICZ
    _Coordinator of __RésistanceS.be__, __Belgium_

    _NOTE__: this program is provisional. The exact list of speakers and
    their order may change. 15mn are assigned to each speaker to deliver
    his/her speech, but the keynote speaker who has 20mn. _
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